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Researchers at Maine香蕉视频直播檚 Colby College along with Good Energy, a Los Angeles-based environmental consultancy. The results were peer reviewed, and the authors are seeking publication in scientific journals. The researchers view the test as a way for audience members, writers and filmmakers to evaluate the representation of climate change on screen.

Some results were surprising. Movies that at first glance appear to have little overlap with climate or the environment passed the test. Marriage Story, Noah Baumbach香蕉视频直播檚 emotive 2019 drama about the collapse of a relationship, passed the test in part because Adam Driver香蕉视频直播檚 character is described as 香蕉视频直播渆nergy conscious,香蕉视频直播� Schneider-Mayerson said.

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The authors narrowed the selection of movies by excluding films not set on Earth or set before 2006 or after 2100. They found streaming services had a higher percentage of movies that included climate change than the major studios did.

The study is 香蕉视频直播渧aluable for marketing purposes, informational purposes, data accumulation,香蕉视频直播� said Harry Winer, director of sustainability at the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts. Winer, who was not involved in the study, said it could also help serve as an incentive to connect audiences with climate stories.

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The study authors said they see the climate reality check as a kind of Bechdel-Wallace test for climate change. Alison Bechdel, a cartoonist, is credited with popularizing that test in the 1980s by incorporating her friend Liz Wallace香蕉视频直播檚 test about gender representation in film into a comic strip. The test asks if a movie includes at least two female characters who have a conversation about something other than a man.

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